Lessons:

Middle Ages Sculpture

Sculpture in the later Middle Ages
was used to decorate churches. In the Early Middle Ages sculpture was
banned from churches for fear it would be confused with pagan worship. The Byzantine
church never did use sculpture to a large degree in their churches. The
Western Roman Catholic church began using sculpture again around the 11th
Century.

The later in the Middle Ages
you went, the more realistic the sculpture became. The Romanesque sculpture
looks blocky and lacks good proportion. The Gothic become more realistic
with flowing robes and better proportioned people. In the Renaissance we
see a return to Greek and Roman forms of sculpture. We see
again the youthful and athletic nude being depicted by people such as
Michelangelo and Dontello. Dontello also begins working in bronze
which had not been done since the Greek and Roman time.